I am a high-school junior and am afraid of failing everything I attempt, such as failing to discover my social niche in society, failing to develop meaningful relationships with others, failing academics and getting accepted into college, failing to achieve happiness etc. I try not to let my fear of failing everything prevent me from participating in life’s opportunities, yet when I do participate, I feel apprehensive and uneasy and unhappy. I don’t know what I want and, therefore, don’t know what to do and how to accomplish this ‘happiness’ that I so actively seek. (I can’t achieve such happiness because I don’t know what happiness really is. What am I seeking? What am I afraid of?) I want to evade this state of apprehension and fear of failing everything. I just don’t know how to go about doing this.
Are you fearful of failing to be fearful; that is the real question.
You’re not afraid of failing. your afraid of being judges by others. you share the fear of fail as does the rest of high schoolers. its just a struggle to fit in. Find out who you want to be and strive to be it, and accept that failure is a part of life.
As long as your happy that’s all that matters and will matter in true life.